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The worry with Shanbally is he seemingly needed the 4 miles at Punchestown to win, with the reasoning he liked it better jumping at the slower speed. The issue here is that even with heavy ground (if it is), there are a fair few that look likely to keep up the pace. That said.. 1. Shanbally...

Around 4000 residents of the City emailed me today with stuff along the lines of 'that was a shit tip, Popey, the rumours are that Conti goes straight to the County'. Some even appended it with 'you bastard, what are the bookies paying you?' I told them that it's unwise to fully believe...

It's probably worth noting...and may add some illustrative understanding to the situation...the current forum manager does it for nothing. It just costs time, and for nowt return that I can see. And he almost certainly has zero interest in horse racing, so he doesn't even get the satisfaction...

Yes, ofc I had a small interest on Queenie on the back of that, ty. :-) But the real interest was on Subtle Fortune first 4. Was dead and buried 3 or 4 out and looked like a pulled up candidate, but somehow got back up for the 4th place. One to watch over 3 miles, particularly if heavy. Yeah...

The power that be who decided on that course of action has been running high-trafficked gambling forums since some of us were in nappies. Much, much bigger than this one. He'll have been ultra-confident that the chosen course of action was an appropriate one, although he'll likely to be the...

Looks like it'll most likely be Aintree then. But if we see some rapid entries in the coming few weeks, we'll have a good clue what the game is. MP seems the most obvious if it's doable getting him there, Coral Cup next year. As a historic illustration, Skelton first put Langer Dan into the...

Logically, this will be a season target for Jordans. But, one would have hoped (expected?) to see JJ Slevin riding. And he's on Raffles (who, as already noted, appears to have a good chance on paper).

I'd say the valuable handicap could well be you know where in March.

This is a reasonable point to catch up, I think. As per most years, I find that as we go into late Dec/Jan, the types I'm looking for (ie, might go in at 33-1+ somewhere) tend to dry up a little. That's probably because most are getting exposed by now, and/or the competition is hotting up in...

Yes, that would look to be a pointedly uneducated omission. Amazingly, the two most likely (at this point) winners of the Supreme both came down at the last when tanking.

The 7th Feb is destined to be renamed Conti Day - half of Vatican City got on at 33s (after a nod from you know who) before the Windsor race in heady anticipation of a worthwhile run there. And run run Conti did. Held up and given a gentle race in the hood/tt to make sure he didn't pull like a...

I did my absolute bollocks on St James Finest when I saw 20s, following a wildly lesser bet on Neo King. Hope you had a good day. Figured you might be there for at least one of the days. Newbury 7th next?

Shame, Robi. Thought he was coming to 10 length that!

That's a rick on Purest, this is his track and his race. But the 33s is gone, expecting 10s or less by Friday. Worried about 5000, but that's the only danger.

I was hoping no one would say anything till the prices are up :)

My reading of Richmond's 3rd last year is he does stay. An ex-Hemming horse, that's what he would have been bought for originally. Assuming Mr Vango and Silver don't turn up (not soft enough), and Grand Geste goes to Donny...then on paper there's an argument that Richmond 'only' has Johnny and...

The thing is... The day will come when the 3 or 4 timer does land. It just can't be this bad without some underlying cause. Venetia will likely find out what it is. Sadly, it's possible that by then hers will be carrying 2 stone 3 in class 5s.

"should include some nice views of the Herefordshire countryside". There might even be some shots in it of a wooden horse race, where several of the grainy field have lapped 17 Venetia Wiliams runners who joined in thinking "this is our chance", twice!

I think we can all feel that, JJ.

I doubt if any of us will heavily disagree with anything said so far. But I'd like to pick up on a couple of points made. Most of us will have (at the least) deep respect, and (at most) some/a significant amount of love, for the horses that - in most cases - are a deep and intrinsic part of our...